Rosemary Brown,
documentary film on DVD “Musik
from the Beyond” (English version).
You must have that fantastic video
documentation of the London housewife, who wrote about 1000
musical pieces by dictation of famous dead composers. Length 52
min, colour, PAL (not in the American NTSC, but all newer US
video players should play PAL too). Price 19.50 Euro + port and
delivery: Europe 1-2 discs + € 4.00, USA up to 500 g + € 4.00
(air mail). Available from:
Gerhard Helzel, Timm-Kröger-Weg 15, D-22335 Hamburg, Germany.
Payment: see above CD 1.

Rosemary Brown
was born in Stockwell, South London, on July 27, 1916. She died
on November 16, 2001, aged 85. She led a middle-class life, with
few features worthy of attention. Yet the events that surround
her life are extremely remarkable, almost spectacular, in that
they arise from her almost unique ability to transcribe and
perform music by great composers who contacted her from the life
beyond. These pieces, intended for the piano, expressed in a
convincing way the genius and handwriting of the great masters.
Over the years (Rosemary Brown was twenty years old when she
began to write down music passed on from the world beyond) almost
one thousand pieces came through her to us. Today, some of this
piano music is available from music stockists.* Individually the
works are by Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy,
Grieg, Rachmaninoff, Schumann and Liszt. Two recordings,
containing a number of impressive pieces, were issued on Philips
and Intercord in the 1970s. We must therefore see it as all the
more gratifying that a new CD has now appeared, carrying no less
than forty individual pieces by the composers mentioned above. 38
of these pieces are performed on the piano by Gerhard Helzel,
Dipl.-Ing. of Hamburg, artist and composer, who has also provided
orchestration for 3 pieces by Grieg, Schumann and Liszt.

Please make shure that your
bank does not deduct any charges. When you wire the money, on the
bank form you can tell your bank that you will take the fees. Or
you send money in an envelope. From some countries money
must be send as an international postal order. If you send a
normal cheque from USA, Canada, Australia etc., please add the
bank fees of € 12.50.
Overseas customers may safe the bank fees, if they find a branch
of a German bank as Deutsche Bank or Commerzbank in their town
and send me a cheque of that bank (please ask the bank). Sorry,
otherwise I can accept no foreign checks.

Many letters of thanks! From all over the
world my two CDs and the film on DVD are ordered. For
example V. S. from Russia wrote: “Thank you so much!
My parents have just got the CDs and heared them uninterruptedly!
It is not possible to explain the feeling by words, when you
imagine that this music is transmitted to people from the other
world!”H. B., pianist, Îles de la Réunion, wrote: «J'ai bien
reçu vos deux disques qui m'ont enthousiasmé ! Que de beauté !
» (“I have well recieved your two discs which have
filled me with enthusiasm! What a beauty!”)D. L., Australia: “I would like also to thank you for
devoting time to concentrate on bringing these pieces to a wider
audience.”A. N. B., diploma social pedagogue, Germany: “I want
to thank you very much that you sent me once more, the Rosemary
Brown CD so quickly. I hear it every day and I am always
impressed. From the Internet, I understand that you interpreted
the piano pieces. I love your piano playing. ”

2 examples from the first
CD that you can download gratis:Rosemary Brown, Etude Ges-dur, inspired
by ChopinRosemary Brown, "Danse exotique",
inspired by Debussy.

Even in Antiquity,
musical works and their inspiration formed the theme of Plato’s
‘Ion’. In this work, he describes trance as a means by which
the gods through spiritual possession (κατοχή) assisted
artists in the composition of music. However, following on from
the ban on ‘heathen’ cults imposed in A.D. 392 (Oracle of
Delphi, 394), the ancient music, often containing hymns to the
gods, was subjected to an unprecedented war of annihilation,
which terminated in the destruction of all Greek and Roman music.
A more precise definition of this ‘inner voice’ occurs for
the first time in the Bible, where it is described as the ‘voice
of God’ (Exod. 3, 14) : אהיה אשר אהיה “Ego sum
qui sum” = ‘I am that I am’. At the Council of Trient
in 1546, the Catholic Church attested that ‘Holy Writ’ had
been handed down by dictation, but did conclude that errors were
possible: …sublatis erroribus…omnes libros tam Veteris
quam Novi Testamenti, cum utriusque unus Deus sit auctor, nec non
traditiones ipsas,…tamquam vel oretenus a Christo, vel a
Spiritu Sancto dictatas…Lutherans even considered that the
Bible had been dictated by God, word for word, down to the last
comma and full-stop. Today, conclusions like these belong to the
past; what we do however affirm is that spiritualist messages,
even dictations true to the letter, are possible, independent of
religion, and that the dead themselves, similarly confirm this to
be true.